Care coordination

People with chronic health conditions, such as cancer, diabetes or obesity, face a complex care system with multiple team members who must also communicate with one another over time and across locations. One of four adults manages two or more chronic health conditions. Chronic diseases account for $3 of every $4 spent on health care.

Care coordination promotes responses to symptoms such as pain or breathlessness, can provide education and coaching to maximize quality of life, and can link multiple primary care providers and specialists. The Collaborative Care Coordination Research Group, led by Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing faculty and graduate students, forges innovative collaborations with other disciplines, such as anesthesiology and social work, to create new models of nurse-directed and technology-enabled care coordination.

Health Network Technology to Enhance Nurse-directed Early Palliative Care for Cancer Patients: gathers information from people with cancer and their caregivers to identify features of a novel personal health network technology and potential acceptance.

Coalition to Transform Advanced Care: partnership with the Alameda County Care Alliance to support family caregivers and those with advanced illnesses. partnership with the Alameda County Care Alliance to support family caregivers and those with advanced illnesses.

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Feb. 15 — School of Nursing professor releases white paper with informatics association Katherine Kim, an assistant professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis, co-authored the white paper, “Redefining Our Picture of Health: Toward a Person-Centered Integrated Care, Research, Wellness and Community Ecosystem,” with a team of health informatics experts in the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). The white paper emerged from the 2017 AMIA Policy Invitational and details new policy and a framework to encourage more unified care. The paper includes draft recommendations that highlight ways in which the federal government might facilitate these changes. AMIA, a professional association for informatics professionals, assesses the effect of health innovations on health policy and advances the field of informatics.